Friday, June 27, 2014

Now Available: How-to Guides for CDC's Essentials for Childhood Initiative

If yes, there are two new documents from CDC’s Division of Violence Prevention that supplement theEssentials for Childhood Framework. The how-to guides can help you start the CDC’s Essentials for Childhood Initiative in your community and prevent child maltreatment from happening by assuring safe, stable, nurturing relationships and environments for children.

Promoting Positive Community Norms is a how-to guide that explains how to encourage the creation of social norms that increase understanding and support of safe, stable, nurturing relationships and environments for children and families. This document provides prevention leaders with tips and a way to learn about:

the power of positive community norms,

the importance of understanding the difference between actual and perceived norms, and

a seven step process for growing positive community norms at state and community levels.

Promoting Positive Community Norms is a CDC how-to guide that provides implementation methods for one of the Essentials for Childhood Framework’s four goals. This how-to guide explains how to create community norms that increase understanding and promotion of safe, stable, nurturing relationships and environments for children and families.